Internal affairs finds policies violated by 4 officers in Louis Nix III death investigation

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has completed its interior probe into the actions of 4 officers connected the nighttime Louis Nix III the 3rd was past heard from, and investigators person sustained complaints against each 4 officers.

A missing persons study quoted Nix’s girlfriend, who said she was connected the telephone with Nix conscionable earlier 8 p.m. connected Feb. 23, erstwhile helium told her helium was driving to her flat connected Broxton Bay Drive. He ne'er made it, and his SUV and assemblage were found successful a pond astatine the analyzable 4 days later connected Feb. 27.

According to JSO’s investigative report, Internal Affairs recovered that “despite carnal grounds being located that was accordant with a conveyance driving successful the writer adjacent the pond,” the officers failed to petition the Dive Team to travel hunt the pond and should not person canceled the effect by the occurrence department.

Internal Affairs besides recovered that the officers did not adequately question a witnesser who called 911 aft seeing headlights successful the h2o and proceeding splashing. The officers noted tyre marks successful the writer adjacent the pond, but noted they did not pb into the pond.

Sgt. Harold Taylor considered the anticipation that a conveyance mightiness person been going astatine a precocious complaint of velocity and not leaving tyre tracks, but helium saw nary disturbance successful the works beingness and algae connected the pond aboveground and did not judge determination was a conveyance submerged successful the pond, the study finds. Taylor told Internal Affairs helium was “confident the telephone for work did not conscionable the criteria for a JSO Dive Unit response.”

The complaints against the 4 officers, and their recommended disciplinary actions, include:

Sgt. Harold Taylor: Failure to instrumentality supervisory action, usurpation of body-worn camera (BWC) argumentation (30-day suspension)
Officer Cameron Doan: Failure to instrumentality supervisory action, usurpation of BWC argumentation (written reprimand)
Officer Jason Moore: Failure to conform to enactment standards, usurpation of BWC argumentation (written reprimand)
Officer Casey Cavendar: Violation of BWC argumentation (formal counseling)

The BWC violations were for the officers either turning their cameras connected late, oregon turning them disconnected excessively soon.

It’s unclear what disciplinary actions the 4 officers volition face.